Parents urge alternatives as Clark County School District holds public input on elementary rezoning

The Attendance Zone Advisory Commission (ASAC) of the Clark County School District held a public input meeting Jan. 15 to gather comments on three proposed attendance-boundary changes that would shift students among Wayne N. Tanaka, Judith T. Steele, Shelly Berkeley and Donna D. Snyder elementary schools. The commission did not take action on the proposals at the meeting.

Tracy Murphy, director of demographics and zoning for the Clark County School District, said the focus-area package (identified in meeting materials as Focus Area E1) contains three rezoning proposals. Murphy said the proposals respond to growth near Tanaka and Steele elementary schools, which she said are over 100% of program capacity, while Berkeley and Snyder have available capacity that could provide enrollment relief. Murphy told the commission the proposals target several discrete areas and that any formal ASAC recommendation will be drafted at the commission’s Jan. 21 meeting and forwarded to the superintendent and the Board of School…